Virtual care news, trends and reimbursement updates
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Membership-based primary care network One Medical on Sept.1 completed its acquisition of Iora Health, a tech-powered primary care provider serving Medicare patients.
HHS awarded $10.7 million from the American Rescue Plan to integrate telehealth services into pediatric mental healthcare access and services across the country, the department announced Aug. 27.
Below is a list of five hospitals and health systems that rolled out or announced new telehealth services in the past five months.
Amwell on Aug. 31 announced it finalized its acquisitions of two digital health startups: digital mental health platform SilverCloud Health and automated virtual health company Conversa Health.
Small hospitals are least likely to have telemedicine, though they're also the ones that would benefit most from it, two physicians and a researcher at Boston-based Harvard Medical School argued in an opinion published Aug. 27 in JAMA Health Forum.
Telemedicine and pharmacy discount company GoodRx is offering free telehealth visits to Tennessee residents through the end of Labor Day weekend in response to the flooding devastating the state.
Telemedicine website SpeakWithAnMD.com, which is partnered with anti-vaccine group America's Frontline Doctors, has been fielding an increasing number of requests for ivermectin as misinformation spreads online claiming the drug is a miracle cure for COVID-19, NBC reported Aug. 27.
The Federal Communications Commission on Aug. 26 awarded $41.9 million in funding to 62 healthcare organizations as part of its $100 million Connected Care Pilot Program.
When the pandemic began, most states, along with CMS, waived telehealth restrictions requiring clinicians to be licensed in the state where their patient lives. Now, some states are discontinuing those waivers, meaning many patients receiving telehealth care from a clinician…
While the hospital at home is now receiving a great deal of attention, due in part to COVID-19, "the model has been in existence for quite some time," Doug Lang, VP of client growth at Health Recovery Solutions, said. "This…
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